Top 20 – August week 3

As expected, Turtles move up to the top spot with "비행기" (Aeroplanes). The trio has completed a long comeback road – they almost broke up last year due to leader Turtleman’s illness. Now they are standing tall on top of the music chart. Congrats to them.

But Turtles will have to compete against Psy next week. Psy’s new song "연예인" (Performer) stormed into the chart at No. 3 this week. His 4th album has topped the sales chart ever since its release in July. Like Turtles’ music, Psy is hip-hop oriented but is getting more and more "pop" these days with less rapping. Let’s see if he can overtake Turtles for the top spot next week.

Besides the high debut by Psy, we have 4 other new songs this week under the top 10. Former S#arp member Lee Ji Hye scored her first top 20 hit at No. 13 with a special single album "Love Me Love Me". Last year, Lee Ji Hye released her first solo album, which was heavy on ballads. This time, she’s going back to a style of dance music which is similar to her S#arp days.

Superjunior’s "U" fell out of the top 20, but they immediately bounced back with a follow up hit "Dancing Out" at No. 14. This song is from the compilation album "SM Town Summer Vacation 2006". Let see if it will duplicate the success of "U".

The other 2 new songs are Byul’s " 큐피트" (Cupid) at No. 16, and Sugar’s Ayumi with her first solo effort "Cutie Honey" at No. 20. "Cutie Honey" is a covered version of Koda Kumi’s Japanese song of the same title.

To listen to the 1 minute sample, you need to follow the links to melon.com and install the melon player to your computer.

Baek Ji Young’s "사랑안해" (I Won’t Love) finally fell out of the top 20 this week. But this song stayed on the chart for 17 weeks, which is the longest tenured song on the top 20 this year.

Sources of the top 20

The sources of this top 20 chart is pretty much the same but the weight assigned to each source may be different each week because some charts do not update weekly (e.g. MNet M!Countdown) and I assign fewer percentage when it happens. From now on, I’ll list my chart sources each week. For August week 3: